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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

WOW! I can’t believe that we are already to 32 weeks these babies are going to be here before we know it! To be honest we are getting a little nervous and scared!

Things have changed so much in the last few weeks to start my belly is HUGE!!!! And as you can imagine now that it is so BIG the wonderful marks of pregnancy have appeared …. yep “STRETCH MARKS!” It’s something all mothers know of but prefer not to speak of! I don’t have too many right now but I am SURE they will only get worse! I really didn’t notice them at first because we don’t have a full length mirror at the new house yet and I can’t see anything past my belly button. But once I saw them I was somewhat sad. I must have been delusional to think that I would only get minimal marks carrying triplets!

The other BIG change is at my 29 week Dr. appointment I was told that we needed to start thinking of a C-section date. At first I wanted to pick the furthest date possible saying that they will come when they come but, after speaking with our Dr. we decided on an earlier date at 36 weeks, because of all the risks of carrying them past 36 weeks. As you can imagine we were nervous about deciding to take them so early but the Dr. said pending an serious issues the babies may be able to come home with us or spend no more than 2 weeks in the NICU, of course we know it’s all up in the air until they arrive.

But our official c-section date is August 23, 2011. So pending any surprises that will be their birthday! Two days after their Daddy’s and 16 days before their Big Brother’s. So I will have 4 boys under 2 years old when they are born! CRAZY!!!

Here are the last few weeks belly pictures…Click here, here, and here if you want to see previous belly pictures.

28 Weeks : 42 1/4 inches around

29 Weeks: 42 1/4 inches around

30 Weeks: 43 3/4 inches around

Try to over look the fact that we don’t have switch plates yet we are still putting the finishing touches on the house.

31 Weeks 43 3/4 inches around

32 Weeks 45 inches ( yes you read correctly!)

I can literally feel my belly stretch and grow it is not as painful as it is ITCHY!!! I know I am getting close to surpassing my height at 17 inches left and 27 days left!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

On July 10 some wonderful friends and family threw me a beautiful baby shower!

They even displayed some of the gifts that were sent early beautifully!

The shower had some surprises as well! My Aunt Laurie and cousin Alana as well as my S-I-L Sarah and her three sweet babies drove the long distance to come to the shower. It was wonderful to be able to share the day with them!

It was rather funny to try and maneuver ALL the adorable outfits and gifts around my belly! Along with the fact that EVERYTHING came in 3’s! and I only have two arms so I used my belly as an extra arm!

I was truly over whelmed by the generosity of my family, friends, and church family! I received LOTS of necessities, adorable clothes, and of course ……

LOTS and LOTS of DIAPERS!!

People were even sweet enough to remember Willie and got him a matching outfits to go with his brothers! This is just one!!

Here are a few pics from the shower…

Of course once the festivities were over William & Willie had to come and check out all our new goodies!

Thank You so much everyone for coming and for all these wonderful gifts! I feel blessed to have all of you in my life!

Friday, July 22, 2011

I have noticed that since I have been pregnant with the triplets I haven’t posted much about Willie. So here is a little update of our sweet Willie Boy!

To start he is FAR from being a baby anymore! He is in FULL toddler mode, at 22 months! I know lucky us! But with all the challenges that come with having a toddler come the sweet surprises as well!

He has become quite a chatter box! He has the sweetest names for his cousins; he loves them ALL so much!! He is obsessed with Mickey Mouse “mee meee” and knows what he likes and dislikes (mostly things that I ask him to do)

I love being able to wake up and spend each and everyday with him! He is so sweet and FULL of love especially for his DADDY!!! He has SERIOUS “Daddyitous!” It just melts my heart in the evenings when he hears the door open and runs straight to his daddy yelling “Daddy! Daddy!” I am not quite sure how William is going to pick up ALL FOUR boys as they greet him each evening in the coming years!

This summer Willie has adjusted well to moving to a new house; which I am sure the new pool helped. He has been such a good helper helping his daddy any chance he can! We just hope he adjusts well to his 3 new baby brothers just as well!

This past month we started swim lessons! He has really enjoyed them since he learned how to follow his instructors rules. It has amazed William and I how much he has learned not just in his ability to swim, since he still needs to learn how to pick his head out of the water when he swims. But mostly the pool safety skills! We couldn’t be more proud of him. He is definitely our little fish! He would swim ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT if we would let him!

I thank God everyday for blessing us with such a wonderful son! I will try to post more regularly about ALL 4 of my boys!

Our Travels on the Baby Making Road

January 2009- 12th: Went in for first ultrasound saw baby's heart beat. 27th: first appointment with my OB.

December 2008- 6th pd. came. 7th I had an ultrasound told to start shots that night. 14th had IUI. 25th found out we were PREGNANT!!! 28th blood test to confirm pregnancy (got positive result).

November 2008- Took most of the month off, was prescribed Provera to make pd. come. Waited most of the month for it to come.

October 2008- ultrasound looked good, took 3 pills a day, got period on day 23, did not ovulate. Dr. said take the month off will start shots and have an IUI next cycle.

September 2008- ultrasound looked good, William got tested STILL WAITING FOR RESULTS!!! Took 3 pills a day (did not mess things up this time!!) Ovulated with a high number

August 2008-Took 3 pills a day (kinda messed up taking them because of distractions & Walgreens), went 8/25 to check progesterone level, ovulated, not pregnant

July 2008- Took 3 pills a day. will go in 7/26 to check prgesterone level.Ovulated,but no pregnancy.

June 2008- Still taking 3 pills a day, ovulated but no pregnacy.

May 2008- Increase dosage to 3 pills a day. Ovulated but no pregnancy

April 2008- Waited most of the month for period to come but never did had to use Provera again.

March 2008-Increased dosage to 2 pills but still did not ovulate.

Febuary 2008- 2nd round of chlomid but did not ovulate.

January 2008- Meet with Fertility Specialist and Diagnoses Stephanie with PCOS. Take Provera and then 1st round of Chlomid. And actually ovulated. But no pregnancy.

December 2007- Decide to go see OBGYN. She refers us to a fertility specialist

October2007- December 2007: No period and NOT pregnant

September 2007- Still off the pill and period never comes but still NOT pregnant.

August 2007- Still off the pill but getting no where.

July 2007- Got off the pill entusiastic about trying to get pregnant. Period takes forever to arrive, so we thought we werepregnant, NOT!!!

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My name is Stephanie and my husband's name is William. I am a first grade teacher and William is a superintendent for his family's road construction business. We have been married for five years. And after about two years for trying we have been blessed with a baby boy. Our son William "Willie" Michael Whitehurst, Jr. was born September 8th, 2009. We have spent every moment enjoying him. We feel so blessed to have him and eachother. From the beginning this blog has been a place to share our story, now our story includes this wonderful little person, who makes the story WAY more interesting!